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Laura George:
And that's where the law of attraction comes in. What you focus on expands in your life. When you focus on unemployment you attract more unemployment; when you focus on opportunities you see more opportunities.

Laura George, author of the book Excuse Me, Your Job is Waiting…

We've all had days when we've felt on top of the world and we go into those stores and we have great clerks and we get on the roads and there's great drivers - that's because we're putting out the good energy. When you're looking for a job you have to put resumes out there, you have to knock on a few doors. But if you're putting out good energy and feeling good about the value you bring, people will walk into your life that are willing to help you. And even if you don't believe in this law of attraction stuff at all, look at it from a common-sense perspective. People would rather help somebody with a good attitude than somebody that's being snarly.

Statistically, eighty percent of us find our next job through someone we know - so that's a good place to concentrate your efforts. And Laura says; when you are looking for work - work smart.

Most of us accomplish eighty percent of our productivity in twenty percent of our time. The same is true with job searchers - you know what hours you're productive, you know what hours you can get a lot done. Schedule your job search process for the day during those couple of hours when you're really productive - get your work out of the way and feel good about it and then find something you can do that you enjoy.

At somethingyoushouldknow.net I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.